Pilgrimage - Read the introduction to chapter 7 on page 148, the section "Challenges Facing Language Arts Education" p. 149-150, with the sections "Playing Video Games in the English Language Arts Classroom" and "Research and Literature on Playing Digital Video Games" p. 152-157. With a writeup as Language Arts on the Pilgrimages topic of the Discussion Tab on your Adventurer's Log - up to 5 XPs.
Quests (up to 5 XPs each):
Spelling City Quest - try at least a couple of games within Spelling City and report the under the Quest topic on the Discussion Tab on your Adventurer's Log. (Note, while it is clear that there is a premium option, one can do a great deal with the games that can be used without paying.) As you look at this site, be sure what you are looking at carries the same look and feel as Spelling City does initially, and is about language arts. Some students have mistakenly clicked on advertising for other games (such as Luminosity sites) that are not even about language arts, but about math. Please do not be fooled!
Mansion Quest 1 - Explore and play games from at least two sites here, other than Spelling City and report on your Quest topic at the Adventurer's Log.
Mansion Quest 2 - Explore and play games from at least 2 sites here other than Spelling City and the games you used for Mansion Quest 1, then report about it on the Quest Topic for the Discussion Tab at your Adventurer's Log.
Game Goo - http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooey.html - Consider the description on page 160 of the text. If you choose to work with this site for Language Arts, you may not use the same games here and as Drill and Practice games for your Quest discussion. It is to be preferred that you would only use Game Goo games at one site or the other.
Bookworm Deluxe, http://www.popcap.com/games/bookworm/online, is mentioned in the text on page 160. The free demo gives a good idea of the way the game is played. Since you are making the words, it can be a good review for any vocabulary. In fact, some teachers have students score separately how many of their spelling words they can find in the game. PLEASE NOTE: The game specified here is Bookworm, which is a language arts game. Not just any PopCap game will do.
Furious Frogs, http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com, has a description on page 160. As noted for Game Goo, if one uses Arcademic Skill Builders in the Drill and Practice Mine, then one may not use the same games for the Language Arts Mansion -- and it is preferred that one only use Arcademics for one quest, one place or the other.
Chihuahua - http://chi.lexigame.com/ -- While this game is a good vocabulary builder, it would fit the curriculum better if one could provide a vocabulary list from which puzzles could be developed.
Wabble - http://wabble.org -- Like Scrabble, this word game is free online, and could be used to reinforce current and recent vocabulary words as students look for opportunities to play those words.
Spelling City - http://www.spellingcity.com -- Spelling City does allow a teacher to list words currently being studied and develops a number of games from them. There also is audio recognition in some games. As drill and practice goes, this is more flexible and useful than most. While there is a premium version, there still is a wide array of free games available.
WEBoggle - http://www.wordsplay.net -- Again, this is a general game in which one could search for a given word list - but the options are somewhat limited in any one set of letters. Actually, WEBoggle is no longer used for this game because of legal issues with the makers of the game Boggle. Wordsplay currently seeks a new name.
Conspiracy Code: Mindbender - http://www.360ed.com/products/ -- although this is a commercial game, the demo is worth investigating. See the discussion of this game on page 162 of the text.
Free Rice - http://www.freerice.com -- See page 161 of the text for an overview of this game.
The Mansion
Pilgrimage - Read the introduction to chapter 7 on page 148, the section "Challenges Facing Language Arts Education" p. 149-150, with the sections "Playing Video Games in the English Language Arts Classroom" and "Research and Literature on Playing Digital Video Games" p. 152-157. With a writeup as Language Arts on the Pilgrimages topic of the Discussion Tab on your Adventurer's Log - up to 5 XPs.
Quests (up to 5 XPs each):
Bookworm Deluxe, http://www.popcap.com/games/bookworm/online, is mentioned in the text on page 160. The free demo gives a good idea of the way the game is played. Since you are making the words, it can be a good review for any vocabulary. In fact, some teachers have students score separately how many of their spelling words they can find in the game. PLEASE NOTE: The game specified here is Bookworm, which is a language arts game. Not just any PopCap game will do.
Furious Frogs, http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com, has a description on page 160. As noted for Game Goo, if one uses Arcademic Skill Builders in the Drill and Practice Mine, then one may not use the same games for the Language Arts Mansion -- and it is preferred that one only use Arcademics for one quest, one place or the other.
Chihuahua - http://chi.lexigame.com/ -- While this game is a good vocabulary builder, it would fit the curriculum better if one could provide a vocabulary list from which puzzles could be developed.
Wabble - http://wabble.org -- Like Scrabble, this word game is free online, and could be used to reinforce current and recent vocabulary words as students look for opportunities to play those words.
WEBoggle - http://www.wordsplay.net -- Again, this is a general game in which one could search for a given word list - but the options are somewhat limited in any one set of letters. Actually, WEBoggle is no longer used for this game because of legal issues with the makers of the game Boggle. Wordsplay currently seeks a new name.
Conspiracy Code: Mindbender - http://www.360ed.com/products/ -- although this is a commercial game, the demo is worth investigating. See the discussion of this game on page 162 of the text.
Free Rice - http://www.freerice.com -- See page 161 of the text for an overview of this game.